Serial admin console program

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com>wrote:

> Minicom can work pretty well if you just set your profile to 9600 and the
> right serial port.  Then, I just alias minicom to 'minicom -o' to keep it
> from initializing my modem when I run it.  Then you just have to make sure
> all your serial devices are set to 9600 and be consistent there.


Great info, neil!   I'll give it a shot and post any problems here.

>
> From a hardware perspective, a good serial console server can be a very
> easy
> way never to have to think about this again.  I've got an old Xyplex at
> work,
> but I've used much newer nicer ones in the past, and they are indispensable
> for "local console" access from everywhere without having to plug and
> unplug
> stuff manually.
> -N


Yeah, those are nice, but all our stuff is collocated with servers that
already have serial ports, so it seems kind of silly to spend the money for
3-4 serial consoles when 10-20 servers/serial-ports are already sitting
right there. =)  Still, good tip.

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Alan Johnson
alan at datdec.com
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